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‘Terrifier 3’ Tops Box Office With $18 Million Debut, ‘Joker: Folie à Deux’ Collapses With Brutal 81% Drop


"Terrifier 3" slashed its way to No. 1 in North America, collecting a stellar $17 million over the weekend.

The off-beat comic book musical, starring Joaquin Phoenix as a reclusive stand-up comedian and part-time clown, suffered a tragic 82% decline in ticket sales from its already disastrous $37.6 million debut. It ranks as one of the biggest-second weekend drops for the superhero genre, plunging more severely than last year’s misfires of “The Marvels” (78.1%), “Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania” (69.9%), “Shazam: Fury of the Gods” (69%) and “The Flash” (72.5%). The biographical drama, in which Sebastian Stan portrays a young Donald Trump, premiered at the Cannes Film Festival and struggled to find a buyer until Briarcliff Entertainment acquired the rights.

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